{"id":8773,"date":"2011-09-19T15:27:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=8773"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:54:00","slug":"brentford-walking-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=8773","title":{"rendered":"Brentford walk(ing) in the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago one lunchtime, while working in a building near Kew Bridge [*], I took a walk along the high road to Brentford and unexpectedly came across some attractive old houses &#8211; in disbelief &#8211; because they didn\u2019t quite match the somewhat industrial and commercial appearance of the High St.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/brentford-the-butts-1680-e326022008_04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8804\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"Brentford The Butts 1680 E326022008_04_th\" src=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/brentford-the-butts-1680-e326022008_04_th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"&quot;5&lt;\/a\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->London Open House provided an opportunity to revisit the area with two knowledgable speakers. A group of about 20 of us withstood the rain for over an hour while taken on a walking tour of the district.\u00a0 Towards the end of the walk we came to the houses I had seen, The Butts, and I was not at all surprised to hear the area is often used for filming.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentfordtw8.com\/default.asp?section=info&amp;page=walk.htm\">https:\/\/www.brentfordtw8.com\/default.asp?section=info&amp;page=walk.htm<\/a> for the walk.\u00a0 Ours was free but even on a chargeable day it\u2019s only \u00a32.<\/p>\n<p>Walking track below:-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/loh_brentford.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8807\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"LOH_Brentford_th\" src=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/loh_brentford_th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[*] With thanks to Flanders and Swann. &#8220;A year ago last Thursday I was strolling in the zoo&#8221; &#8211; The Gnu song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago one lunchtime, while working in a building near Kew Bridge [*], I took a walk along the high road to Brentford and unexpectedly came across some attractive old houses &#8211; in disbelief &#8211; because they didn\u2019t quite match the somewhat industrial and commercial appearance of the High St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing-design","category-open-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28993,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773\/revisions\/28993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}